Ex-child-agency official accused of sex offense
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The former spokesman for the state’s child welfare agency paid two 16-year-old boys for sexually explicit photos of themselves and then brokered the images to overseas pornographers, according to a complaint filed in Tampa by federal prosecutors.
One of the boys that Al Zimmerman paid for photos was in state foster care at the time, according to a federal affidavit.
Zimmerman, 41, spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families, has been charged with eight counts of using a child in a sexual performance. The complaint will be taken to a grand jury for a federal indictment, a U.S. attorney’s office spokesman said.
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